Name, first nameDe Juan, AlmaYear of birth1994eMailalma.de_juan@ecal.chUniversityECALField of Interest / research fieldArt Direction in Typography / in Photography Title of projectTraces of movementAbstractFrom among all the artistic fields, dance is the onlyone that has had a continuous relation with oraltradition in Western Culture. This one characteristicremains linked to the history of dancing and itsidentity. To access the nature of dance, whether it isby perceptual means or by performing it, is a directaccess which steps in the heart of emotion, above allin contemporary dance. In this sense, dancing doesnot seem to have anything to do with a symbolicsystem which would reduce and summarize the sensitivetissue of movement to a universal graphology.Nevertheless, although its apparent independencewith the written world, the choreographic drawinghas always been present in dance history. The movementhas incessantly wanted to enrol itself andremain remembered; what is to say, to be fixed. Andamongst every representative and notation systemin dance, few have had as much influence as theone created by Rudolf Laban in the 20’s. The depthand conceptual novelty of his discoveries contributedto its wide spreading and universal ambition.Sigurd Leeder, together with the choreograph and pedagogue Albrecht Knust, contributed deeply inthe development and study of Laban’s kinetography.But like the rest of dance notation systems, it doesnot have a lineal and progressive development. Itsmodest nature, ephemeral and without any kindof supposed enduring for the dance scores, leadsthese systems to ambiguous cultural status, with noauthority positions or symbolic references. No edict,no clergyman or typographic federation has ever tryto fix them —as it was the case of word and music—.Thus, this research —being fundamentally based ontwo great figures in the realm of dance and contemporarynotation, Rudolf Laban and Sigurd Leeder— isaiming to propose an answer to questions such asthe need for constant transformation of notationsystems in dance and the search of a choreographicscore capable to describe any human movement.TutorsRoland Früh and Wayne Daly